List of Topics starting with [U]

The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which ...

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ...

Did you ever thing, Bryntastic, that I might want to be friends?" he whispers close, so close to me I feel his breath on my ...

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the ...

You're in a bar - grow up. You're drinking poison. You're trying to have sex unsafely with someone you don't know. Is secondhand smoke really ...

Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker ...

I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." ...

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

Some things better left unspoken

I've taken this year to concentrate fully on the promotion of 'The Lady.' This movie has been so meaningful; until we have premiered in every ...

And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said.And yet spoke you beautifully, Agathon, he said.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and ...

I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think ...

The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening ...

Excuse me, lieutenant. I am not that kind of Underlord.

When you hear people in church, debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and ...

I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were ...

I only have two reactions to bad news. Uncontrollable rage and then a sharp left turn into boiling self-hatred.

A salesman is an it that stinks to please but whether to please itself or someone else makes no more difference than if it sells ...

Phut Phat knew, at an early age, that humans were an inferior breed. They were unable to see in the dark. They ate and drank ...

Genuine faith is always seeking the Word hidden in the flesh, not using the Word simply as a way of getting at the flesh.

Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, ...

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable ... or make it your last.

Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

Thank the gods Ubie'd had her detailed, because blood simmering under the New Mexico sun was never a good scent choice for cars. I preferred ...

Don't sell your land, don't sell Grandmother Earth to the strip-mining outfits and the uranium companies. Don't sell your water." That kind of advice is ...

I know a lot of people who are philosophers and they sit by the river and talk about what that underwater world might look like. ...

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not ...

I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.

In other words, the uninsured private bankers had to be bailed out illegally and utterly unethically. But the taxpayers who were forced to carry that ...

Because I love you. I love you too much, like I always do, but this time I don't regret it and I don't wish I ...

Byjadh heemyeh odh ubaech achoedzaY Foolishness may have golden offspring. I hope yours does.

Dani said this woman, with whom she'd lived for two years, had never known her. "I feel like people accept the first thing I show ...

I don't know, Reeve. Because you do a lot of talking, and all I hear are mixed messages." "I'm unmixing them now. Listen. This is ...

The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

He's heard Unitarianism called a featherbed for falling Christians, but his mother doesn't seem like a woman who has fallen anywhere. (Where is the featherbed ...

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony ...

Unreturned love is like a meal with only one participant.

I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their ...

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded ...

I know he's right to be worried about us, because I'm worried about us too. I don't understand how relationships work. I don't know how ...

Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is ...

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

Life is a gift, albeit unassembled. It comes in pieces, and sometimes it falls to pieces.

For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for ...

Death stared at her. He'd never before experienced an unsatisfied customer. He was at a loss. Finally he gave up. BEGONE, YOU BLACK AND MIDNIGHT ...

A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced ...

Gratitude is the key to unlocking the door to abundance.

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and ...

The sinner is the gospel's reason for existence. You, my friend, to whom this word now comes, if you are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, you are ...

For the first time in my life, which had for years been sometimes witlessly gregarious, I discovered the pain of unwanted solitude. Like a felon ...

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most ...

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest ...

No other country in the world disenfranchises people who are released from prison in a manner even remotely resembling the United States. In fact, the ...

It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of ...

A university student attending lectures on general relativity i the morning and others on quantum mechanics in the afternoon might be forgiven for thinking that ...

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

I try to formulate a plan but my thoughts are a toxic fizz of regret, panic, and self-loathing, as if someone shook up a bottle ...

Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still ...

Life is a delicate dance. We live in a society that governs we all get along. The invisible fine print, the unwritten rules and regulations ...

It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. ...

So it is best for you to withdraw into the world of your portents, for there at least you can decide yourself how portentous they ...

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

I found it challenging to give her an accurate account of his odd humanity, his unique philosophy, and his uncentred morality

Was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted?

A slight but perceptible wave seemed to roll beneath the floor; then it sank; then another came, more perceptible. Lights slid right across the uncurtained ...

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it ...

She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place ...

127. Craft a poem about sadness and darkness but using only positive words.

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust ...

The sun setting on the Ucayali, with the Andean foothills in the background, and the taste of freshly cut papaya in my mouth, restoring a ...

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

I think the Americans don't understand that this is a complicated new ball game. People everywhere have seen that a few determined people who were ...

The world is running out of good places for ashes.The Jade Rabbit

Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.

So may I, blind fortune leading me,Miss that which one unworthier may attain,And die with grieving.

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your ...

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed ...

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle ...

Was my sin basically one of untruthfulness? Or, more likely, one of cowardice? But the liar knows the truth. The coward knows his fear and ...

In the strange dreams of man, there are stories that are unknowingly being built by them. Mine are among the billions that remain untold.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man ...

I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were ...

If any man has a ghostBourne has a ghosta tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone ...

Are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope? For ever in the same track - for ever at the same pace?

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

By the time he went to work for James J. Hill in 1889, he had survived Mexican fevers, Indian attack, Upper Michigan mosquitoes, and Canadian ...

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

We have found that fusions of GFP with the RING finger domains of certain E3 ubiquitin ligases creates an unstable GFP. We have used unstable ...